I'm with ya. My mother worked 24/7 when I was a kid, so we really never had any of the "mom touches" around the house. I had three sisters and it fell up us to shop, cook, do laundry, clean the house and watch the younger kids. Now that I'm actually a stay at home mom, I'm able to clean my kids' rooms and make their beds every day, bring dinner to them at school when they've got a game or something they need to go to, make their favorite home cooked meal every day before I drive them to school, pick up and take home their friends from just about every conceivable activity, etc. . . and what thanks do I get? LOL Every so often one of them will, out of the blue, say thanks mom or I love you - and its all worth it!!! Hopefully, when they look back at their childhoods they'll feel that I was behind them every single step of the way and also realize that I gave up a hell of a career just so I could pick up their stinky socks off the floor of their rooms!